11: Lord of Loud
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
He didn't like the quiet, so he made sure we all could pump up the volume.
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| 0:00.0 | Holly and Cheneyce are prepping for a big weekend away and it needs to go exactly to plan |
| 0:05.5 | so they need to know exactly what they get in, like the choice of over 800 hotels. |
| 0:09.9 | Yes! Right in the centre! |
| 0:12.1 | So there are only moments away from where they want to be, with a super comfy bed waiting |
| 0:16.8 | for them at the end of the night. And with checkout by 12pm they can even hit snooze. |
| 0:22.6 | Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip. Premier in, rest easy. Only available to book at |
| 0:27.8 | Premierin.com. This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:38.0 | Jimmy was a quiet kid from London. He was also a prisoner. From his toes to his arm pits, |
| 0:44.3 | the young lad was encased in plaster, a suffocating body cast that kept him completely immobile. |
| 0:51.2 | From most of his childhood, Jimmy endured the terrible suffocating quiet, |
| 0:55.4 | wasting away a little more with every passing day. But tuberculosis of the bones is an unpredictable |
| 1:02.7 | thing, and happily by the age of 13 Jimmy had begun to recover. Slowly he outgrew his plaster |
| 1:10.8 | cocoon and hobbled into the world around him. It was a tough transition to build his strength |
| 1:17.2 | and confidence he took up tap dancing and found himself drawn to the music. But in the pre-war |
| 1:23.7 | London of 1938 there was no money in dancing. So he tried his hand at selling shoes. |
| 1:30.5 | Then he worked in a jam factory. Then he worked in a scrap metal yard. With no formal education, |
| 1:36.4 | his options were limited. At the canned food factory he caught off a chunk of his thumb |
| 1:42.1 | slicing meat. There had to be a better way. Jimmy decided to educate himself. He read |
| 1:49.6 | everything he could and found that aside from music, engineering and fabrication made the most |
| 1:55.6 | sense to his brain. When the war broke out he found work in a factory manufacturing aircraft. |
| 2:02.0 | It was important work and he was good at it. But still it was the music that called him, |
| 2:08.2 | and when the drummer of a local band was drafted, Jimmy auditioned for his spot. |
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